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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AntiqueBytes, post: 5962406, member: 13195&quot;]I just noticed this in researching Henry Fielding (who created the first modern police force in addition to his novels) which led me Samuel Richardson:&nbsp; &quot;He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Millar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Millar" rel="nofollow">Andrew Millar</a>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Millar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Millar" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Millar</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1725, as a twenty-year-old bookseller apprentice, he evaded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh" rel="nofollow">Edinburgh</a> city printing restrictions by going to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith" rel="nofollow">Leith</a> to print, which was considered beyond Edinburgh&#039;s jurisdiction. Millar was soon to take over his apprentice master&#039;s London print shop. He was actively involved in railing against the authorities in Edinburgh.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>From a larger Wiki article.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if Andrew Millar had bookplates and are collected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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